کاکل

Khalaj

Noun

کاکُل (kâkul) (definite accusative کاکُلؽ, plural کاکُللار)

Arabic spelling of kâkul (“forelock”)

Declension

Declension of
	singular	plural
nominative	کاکل	کاکللار
genitive	کاکلؽݧ	کاکللارؽݧ
dative	کاکلقا	کاکللارقا
definite accusative	کاکلؽ	کاکللارؽ
locative	کاکلچا	کاکللارچا
ablative	کاکلدا	کاکللاردا
instrumental	کاکللا	کاکللارلا
equative	کاکلوارا	کاکللاروارا

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Mongol [script needed] (kekül).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /kaː.ˈkul/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɑː.kʰʊ́l]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰɑː.kʰʊ́l]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰɔː.kʰúl̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɒː.kʰól̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɔ.kʰúl]

Readings
Classical reading^?	kākul
Dari reading^?	kākul
Iranian reading^?	kâkol
Tajik reading^?	kokul

Noun

کاکل • (kâkol) (plural کاکل‌ها)

lock, forelock
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 74:
  بحق کاکل شوخت که افسر حسن است
  بحق لوح جبینت که جان ماست مگر
  ba-haqq-i kākul-i šōxat ki afsar-i husn ast
  ba-haqq-i lawh-i jabīnat ki jān-i mā-st magar
  [I swear] by the truth of your impertinent forelocks that are the diadem of beauty,
  [I swear] by the truth of the table of your brow which is, perchance, my life-essence.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)
topknot
crest

Descendants

→ Khalaj: kâkul
→ Ottoman Turkish: کاکل (kâkül)
- Turkish: kâkül
- → Armenian: քանքուլ (kʻankʻul), քյանքուլ (kʻyankʻul), քյանքյուլ (kʻyankʻyul)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “کاکل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim